profff said:
do not worry, i understand and i don't get offended easily
i prefer cav to peta, but i do not like people asking DSQ without reason
they remind me of soccer players asking yellow cards to the referee.
today i saw a sprint as hundreds in the past
cav , in processo alla tappa , on italian tv tried to keep the point, even if he is not speaking good italian
it looked like he wanted to refer to DSQ he had in the past for similar reason, but i cannot remember.
cipo and silvio martinello both judged the sprint clean: cav was not at the side of petacchi, and his wheels was always away of peta's posterior wheel when alejet changed direction.
i agree with them.
and tomorrow with madonna delle grazie few km from the finish line in rapallo seems to favourish again petacchi, because he is one of the sprinter passing better the hills.
One interesting point about the
processo alla tappa was Cav trying to explain his case, clearly uncomfortably before the Italians and in his inadequate italian, while the lady director and and interpreter, Alessandra De Steffano, didn't explain to the others correctly what Cav had actually said.
He said "but when I do that, I always get disqualified". Instead the others were told by the interpreter "but when others do that, they always get disqualified."
This fundamental distinction between "I" and "they", made the confusion even more confusing.
Doesn't change anything, however, the liberties with which sometimes the Italians report things is always circus like.
In any case, Ali-Jet is really fit right now and probably has lost some of his explosiveness due to much mountain riding on Etna before the Giro. This is why he especially needed to anticipate Cav, while his superior resistance and experience gave him the win. In a straight up sprint, Cav proabably would have beaten him though.
Tomorrow, with the tough lead-up to the finish, Petacchi is thus favored with his superior fitness and resistance.
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